
Restless Dead
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Topics of focus include the origin of the goes (the ritual practitioner who made interaction with the dead his specialty), the threat to the living presented by the ghosts of those who died dishonorably or prematurely, the development of Hecate into a mistress of ghosts and its connection to female rites of transition, and the complex nature of the Erinyes. Restless Dead culminates with a new reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia that emphasizes how Athenian myth and cult manipulated ideas about the dead to serve political and social ends.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Frequently Used Terms
- Abbreviations
- PART I. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DEAD IN ANCIENT GREECE
- 1. Elpenor and Others: Narrative Descriptions of the Dead
- 2. To Honor and Avert: Rituals Addressed to the Dead
- 3. Magical Solutions to Deadly Problems: The Origin and Roles of the Goes
- PART II. RESTLESS DEAD
- 4. The Unavenged: Dealing with Those Who Die Violently
- 5. Childless Mothers and Blighted Virgins: Female Ghosts and Their Victims
- PART III. DIVINITIES AND THE DEAD
- 6. Hecate and the Dying Maiden: How the Mistress of Ghosts Earned Her Title
- 7. Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai Theai
- Bibliography
- General Index
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